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Placemat Instructions – The development of a new type of instructions for learning engineering practices through robotics
Recent graduate Sara Willner-Giwerc’s doctoral research focused on supporting open-ended engineering activities in the classroom. Her work focused on a worksheet format, called “Placemats”, which provides scaffolded prompts that support solution diversity. Focused on robotics, the placemats share building and coding information that allows students to be creative and achieve functional solutions. This research was […]
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Nolop Makerspace Haunted House
This fall saw the 5th iteration of the annual Nolop Makerspace Haunted House. A collaboration between Tufts CEEO and the Nolop Makerspace with support from the Tufts School of Engineering, the late-October interactive experience featured project from Prof Ethan Danahy’s and Prof. Steven Bell’s introduction to engineering classes as well as a robotic arm from […]
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CEEO DEIJ Website
Although Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) had a commitment to equity before 2020, when confronted with the events of 2020, including the death of George Floyd and the momentum of the Black Lives Matters movement, Tufts CEEO began overdue work on formalizing and communicating our commitment and action to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, […]
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One Year of Playful Engineering-Based Learning (PEBL)
In the first year of the LEGO Foundation Playful Engineering-Based Learning (PEBL) grant, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) supported eight outreach organizations to bring playful engineering to almost 6,000 students around the globe. In the United States, more than 3,000 students attended PEBL workshops, camps, or classes and over 300 teachers were […]
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Tufts CEEO Outreach Learning Fellows
In 2021, Tufts Center for Education and Outreach (CEEO) piloted the Outreach Learning Fellows (OLFs) Program to work with local children, focusing on organizations with children who may not get the experience to engineer otherwise. This year we are continuing the program in five local settings (Malden YMCA, Medford YMCA, Parlin School in Everett, Winter […]
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2022 ASEE Conference
Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate students and faculty attended the 2022 Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference this June in Minneapolis, MN. We were excited to have eight conference papers accepted this year. Congratulations to Desen Ozkan and Chelsea Andrews for winning the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division’s Best […]
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Summer Work on the Justice-based Engineering and Data science Initiative
The Justice-based Engineering and Data science Initiative (JEDI) is an NSF-funded research project focused on adding sociotechnical content and reasoning to a first-year data science course, Introduction to Computing for Engineering (ES-2), and studying the impact. In addition to coding skills and data science approaches, students also now learn how to consider the social, economic, […]
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LEGO Tech and Play Visit to Rwanda
As in-person interaction slowly returns to our lives after years of pandemic-induced isolation and virtual meetings, many people are still coming to terms with returning to daily commutes to work. For Alison Earnhart, Tufts CEEO project administrator for the Tech and Play initiative, work took her 6,871 miles away to Kigali, Rwanda in early May. […]
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Outreach Learning Fellows
This year Tufts CEEO Learning Fellows (OLF) partnered with local informal education organizations in Boston, Malden, Medford, and Somerville to bring engineering to their K-12 students for 60-90 minutes each week. Tufts students worked in the same classroom each week to support hands-on engineering design. There was also a weekly seminar for fellows that addressed […]
